Mozilla's recent disaster: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973. All extensions were disabled due to an expired certificate. Was inevitable with the extension signing prison they've decided to implement. Hope they suffer for being so anti-user - meanwhile we have yet another reason not to use this terrible browser.

But do we really have a choice?Currently if not mozilla's browser we can only choose google's one. So in order to not get trapped in the browser monopoly we had in 90's we cannot just all move to chromium based browser (which is pretty much all the rest out there).

The only relevant one that avoids the duopoly is Pale Moon. However my real point is to admit that Mozilla has screwed us over and can't be relied on anymore - so that we can seek a solution, instead of lying to ourselves while they keep exploiting us.

Iridium seems fine to me. Just gotta dissable Google's Safe Search, and add a few typical extensions like uBlock, HTTPS Everywhere and a few others. Or you can folllow digdeeper's advice, and go with Pale Moon. It seems to be not the most modern looking, but it does work well from my experience.

Iridium just like currenntly 99.9% of browsers are based on chromium and this is scary. Its Internet Explorer 2.0 situation. The difference is that google was smart and instead of shoving their browser as a product they shoved their engine. This means that already now people build websites with chrome in mind which starts breaking standards. We will soon have a web that is totally owned by google as every browser will be using chrome, and every website will be written for it. Thats why it is so important to keep the balance. Annd like it or not its mozilla that is currently the only one that can keep it. Though IMO it is too late as mozilla lost the battle already, but while its bleeding to death its important to not let go just yet. Pale Moon is just a fork of mozilla's work and it is a nice alternatie for the super niche, it is in no way competition to chrome. Google already ate opera (baed on chrome) and even internet explorer (based on chrome). The only non-chorme based is firefox. If mozilla dies we will wake up in the world totally dominated by one company (dont have to mention that google even enters the under ocean fiber optics and will soon own them all too)

How did they eat the Opera? I know that it did become absolute lackluster in terms of privacy despite it's features, but I am now curious as to what exactly happened that affected it.

As for the chrome situation, I do have to agree. As comfy as Chromium engine is, it does do pose a big threat to the market, threatening the monopoly. And most people do not see it eitther, hiding behind their petty arguement of "Does not affect me" or "Got nothing to hide".

I personally wait for Midori and Falkon to improve, since they seem to use something different and are pretty promising so far, just that they lack features, but it's a matter of time before proper ones are implemented.

They ate Opera by having it move to their engine (they used to use their own Presto). Midori and Falkon also use Chrome engine (as well as Otter Browser and Qutebrowser). We really have two "options" - either keep being dependent on the big guys (Google and Mozilla, maybe soon just Google as muppeth says), or realize the current web is unsustainable and just forget about following the newest standards and features. The reason all those niche browsers are using Chrome engine is because they do, in the end, want to support the "modern web" - but maybe that isn't the right way. We could still be browsing mostly text websites with no or little JS and these can be viewed with any old browser, even something like NetSurf or elinks. I mean what new stuff has recently appeared that we can really say we need? It's all fluff. But people want their Facebooks which of course will keep fueling the machine.

I agree, the new features are not even needed. Facebook itself is becoming more and more data and memory hungry. Two gigs of RAM just to sustain a single website running on your computer. It's ridiculous!

Yeah but even the "modern" CSS such as the table mimics are kind of pointless. Actually, many of these features can even be used to compromise privacy. If you're curious, check out what people did with pure HTML 15 years ago. You might be amazed.